On the one-year anniversary of Brett Favre being named in a civil suit, here's a look back at the Hall of Famer's involvement in the largest welfare scandal in the history of the state. Xuan Thai is a senior writer and producer in ESPN's investigative and enterprise unit. She was previously deputy bureau chief of the south region for NBC News..
But having said that, if his testimony is very consistent with what he's saying --"I didn't do anything wrong, here's what I knew" -- and he backs that up, he's got real evidence to support that, it can be useful to him. And the state can say,"Hold on a second here, maybe we have a problem. Maybe we're going to have a hard time proving our case.
Then you get a sense of,"Wow, this person really did something they weren't supposed to." Or alternatively,"The allegation, it looked that way, but this person actually didn't do anything wrong."